For the summer, is the ceiling fan supposed to turn clockwise or counter clockwise? I can never remember!
You want it blowing down for the summer and up for the winter, so it depends on which way the blades are tilted.
yep what she said, used to be it was one or the other back when ceiling fans were pretty much all alike but now that doesn't work anymore. If in doubt, light a match and hold it under to determine which way pulls the smoke up and which blows it down.
they are all different. if you can figure out what kind it is, you can google it. That's what I did, then wrote on the little switch with a sharpie, and 's' for summer and 'w' for winter. :mrgreen:
yep you can go that way too, lighting a match was just the quick way my electrician family told me to go. Good luck
Kaci is smarter than me....I never heard the match trick. :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen: or you could combo our idea's!
but instead of googling or bothering the nerds at Lowe's, you could light the match, then mark the switch....whallla.....fan marked, air flowing properly.:cheers:
Everytime I lit the match, the fan blew it out LOL!! This is what I found out: During the summer you want the fan to blow air straight down, so your ceiling fan needs to run in a counter clockwise direction (as you look up at it). The warmer it is, the higher the speed should be. During the winter, your fan should run at a low speed in a clockwise direction...
I haven't marked mine, because it's easy to remember. The switch has up and down positions - up, the fan blows up - that's for winter - and down, the fan blows down, for summer.
This isn't aways the case! To make my fans go counterclockwise, two of my fans = down and one of my fans = up. (And, yes, I doublechecked it!)
ok maybe i should have been more specific, you don't have to hold the match right up against the fan or have the fan on full blast either, just stand under the fan with it in your hand, worked for me.
